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Definitive Guide to WPF Colors, Color Spaces, Color Pickers and Creating Your Own Colors for Mere Mortals

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15 Mar 2021CPOL15 min read 33.2K   341   18  
Covers in depth all WPF color related issues from Color Models, ColorPickers, Colors to helpful methods for mixing colors and making them brighter and darker.
In order to design a nice GUI, one needs to understand how colors are created, color models, the limitations of the color pickers and the WPF Colors class. There are many articles covering one or the other aspect, but none covers all of them detailed and easy understandably. The article provides also some in WPF missing methods for changing colors, like making them brighter (change saturation) or darker (change brilliance) or mixing colors together.

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